Memorials

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.